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With the end of World War II dawned what Time magazine called the American Century. Europe and Japan a bombed-out shambles, the United States emerged from the war a strapping giant of a power, and quickly maneuvered itself and its dollar to the center of a radically altered world power structure.
Xavier Libertad
Today, travelers to Haiti must tell Haitians what really is happen- ing inside their own country. Since November, news within that nation comes only from the official gov- ernment media, from the "aligned" press which relays little if any non-official information, or from the informal telediol (word of mouth), an active though not al- ways accurate people's grape- vine, immune to censorship, that has carried "news" among the il- literate masses since Haitian in- dependence in 1804.
While summer is traditionally quiet around the NACLA office, some of the fruits of past labors have been harvested recently and we have some happy news to re- port on several fronts: * The newest member of the NACLA family is Jonah Charles, born July 29 to veteran NACLA staffer Steve Volk and his wife Dinah. We expect to put Jonah to work shortly in the mailroom, stuff- ing and stamping and packaging .
LATIN AMERICA James Petras, Class, State and Power in the Third World-With Case Studies on Class Conflict in Latin America (Allanheld Osmun & Co., 1981).
Humberto Brown & Elmo Dominguez & George Priestley & Eduardo Rubin-Vega
Official reports blamed "bad weather conditions" for the July 31 plane crash that killed General Omar Torrijos Herrera, architect of Panama's current Canal treaties. While few will say it was not an accident, there is no doubt certain groups will benefit from his death.
Over the years, we have found the many letters from readers to be an important contribution to the evaluation of our work, and a source of new ideas and en- thusiasm. We welcome both crit- icism and debate, so please share your thoughts on the Report with us.
A couple of weeks after Ronald Reagan won the presidential election, the bodies of two young people were found on the streets of San Salvador. One bore a sign around its neck: "With Reagan we will eliminate the miscreants and subversives in El Salvador and Central America.
The rhetoric of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign would suggest that he views the 38 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean much the way he views the Panama Canal. It further suggests he is as committed to a swagger- ing militaristic foreign policy posture as was Theodore Roosevelt in his day.